cave_bureau | Louisiana | CITA

Aarhus School of Architecture presents a section of the large woven wooden structure featured in Louisiana’s much-acclaimed exhibition with cave_bureau last year. The work, generously loaned by Louisiana, is a full-scale representation of the Shimoni Cave in eastern Kenya. The weaving was developed in collaboration with Professor Phil Ayres from the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) at the Royal Danish Academy, who has researched Kagome weaving and the development of new digital tools for generating weaving patterns capable of realising complex geometries.

The exhibition opening will be marked by a lecture from Phil Ayres and a presentation by Mette Marie Kallehauge, curator at Louisiana. The event is open to all.

Programme

15:00 Welcome and introduction by Niels Martin Larsen, PhD, Associate Professor, Aarhus School of Architecture
15:15 Lecture by Phil Ayres, PhD, Professor of Biohybrid Architecture, Institute of Architecture and Technology, Royal Danish Academy
16:00 Exhibition opening by Mette Marie Kallehauge, Curator and Senior Curator, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

The exhibition is on view from February 1 to 23 in the school’s ground-floor exhibition space.
Special thanks to Mette Marie Kallehauge, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, and Phil Ayres for their collaboration on the exhibition and event.

Background

Kenyan practice cave_bureau is the sixth architecture studio to be featured in the series The Architect’s Studio at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. The exhibitions focus on the architects’ working processes and offer insight into how ideas take form. The featured practices have been particularly engaged with issues of sustainability, as well as political and social challenges such as climate change, overpopulation, urbanisation, and cultural heritage.

Other studios in the Architect’s Studio series include the Chinese Amateur Architecture Studio by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu (2017), Chilean Alejandro Aravena and his studio Elemental (2018), Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao (2019), Indian architect Anupama Kundoo (2020/21), and the British research group Forensic Architecture (2022).